A32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 7,1981
Bob Stahl, Foreground, Somerset Farmers Union President
and convention delegate; and Dick and Marge Edwards,
Oxford, Chester County, were among the Pennsylvania
members who attended the 79th annual Farmers Union
Convention.
NFU
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plained “Seven of them are for
mer recipients of Food for Peace
aid ”
“All of our major customers for
nonfat dry milk and grain sorghum
are graduates of the Food for
Peace program, as well as eight
out of 10 of our largest customers
for wheat, cotton and rice and
seven out of 10 of our largest
buyers of soybeans, corn and feed
grains. This should be remem
bered in planning our food power
strategy ”
Looking toward the adoption of a
1981 farm bill, Stone said the single
most important provision would be
a substantial increase in com
modity loan levels
"Much less net cost to the
Treasury is involved in the com
modity loan program than in direct
payments to farmers,” he argued.
In addition, higher crop loan
levels would enable farmers to
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keep pace with inflated costs,
would make the farmer-held gram
reserve work more effectively both
for farmers and consumers, would
enhance U.S export earnings and
our balance of trade, and would
make it possible to bring additional
acreage mto cropping as needed in
response to growing demand ”
Stone recalled that when shor
tages developed in 1972 there were
62 million diverted acres which
could be brought back into
production
“Now there is no cushion of set
aside acres,” he asserted “We are
not out of land, but the available
acres tend to be less productive
and will, therefore, require higher
commodity prices to be converted
to cropland use ”
The USDA summary report on
the structure of agriculture in the
long term “may be more fun
damental to America than most of
us yet realize” National Fanners
Union Vice President, Stanley M
Moore of Jamestown, N D , told
the organization’s convention
In his annual report, Moore said
the USDA structures report
‘ places into real perspective the
challenges that lie ahead for the
American family farmer ” He said
the report also outlines the
challenges that face the nation and
its position in the world “because it
points out the trend of private and
public policy that will determine
who will control the land and in
turn our food supply of this
nation.”
He emphasized the USDA study
must be thoroughly reviewed by
farmers and nation in the
development of future farm
policies, and those decisions must
be made in the near future “Time
is not necessarily on the side of the
family farm, and the challenges
are real It is time to choose
Moore said while the national
farm group may not necessarily
agree with ail ot the conclusions
and recommenations ot the USDA
report, it is imperative that the
farm group continue in a leading
role to address the issues of land
ownership, soil and water con
servation, tax policies, commodity
programs, credit policies, public
research and extension policies,
agriculture labor and trade
policies which are outlined in the
report He reminded the farm
organization delegates that the
national dialogue on the structure
of agriculture was initiated two
years ago in an address by former
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland at the National Farmers
Union Convention in Kansas City.
Kenneth L Motz, treasurer of
Farmers Union, said the group
experienced its 11th consecutive
year of membership growth in
1980
“We gamed 8600 families in 1980,
and we’re proud of that increase at
a time when our nation is losing
farmers every year,” Motz said
He said membership increases
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NFU delegates approve
mushroom policy
ORLANDA, FLA. Delegates
to the 79th Annual Convention of
the National Farmers Union
Wednesday unanimously approved
policy calling for quantitative
limits on imported mushrooms
The Fanners Union is the first
national farm organization to ad
dress the problems facing the
mushroom industry with a specific
policy statement. Most of the in
dustry is centered in Chester,
Berks and Lancaster counties of
Pennsylvama
The family farm organization’s
position is that an absolute unport
quota of 30 percent of total
domestic consumption ot
mushrooms be enforced, based on
the previous year’s volume.
This is the first time in the
history of import problems in the
mushroom industry that any farm
organization has introduced a
plank into their national policy,’
said Margaret Edwards a Ear
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organization’s expenditures in a
budget of more than $2.2 million.
“I am proud to tell you that the
budget of the National Farmers
Union is used solely to promote the
interests of family agriculture and
the cooperatives that serve family
farmers and ranchers,” Motz said.
“Our first consideration in every
expenditure is what it wul do for
agriculture ”
“With threats to the dairy price
support program and other farm
related programs of the federal
government, the work of the
National FArmers Union and
every one of our members will be
extremely important throughout
1981,” Motz said.
mers Union member from Chester
County T think it will be a great
help to the mushroom growers
because now we have someone to
stand behind us.”
Besides limiting imports, the
policy position states that imports
should meet the same health,
sanitation, pesticide and species
requirements imposed on domestic
producers.
The policy position states that
* A tariff of 13 percent should
continue to be imposed on im
ported mushrooms subsequent to
the expiration of Executive
Proclamation 4801,” which was a
tariff imposed by the Carter Ad
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•The tariff remedy is just not
enough, we must find a way to
protect these growers,” James
Brown, Pennsylvania Advisory
Committee Chairman stated.
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